...with weary task fordone '. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe, In remembrance of...glide : And we fairies, that do run, By the triple Hecat's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, M ie slow passage, progress....

...All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, itchers have ears, and I have many servants : Besides, old Gremio Hecat's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolick ; not...

...Night's Dream it is when The Elizabethan Hamlet The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve (5.1.372) that The graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide. (5.2.10-12) And in Othello it is 'between twelve and one' that lago arranges as the time when Roderigo...

...All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow. Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of...forth his sprite. In the church-way paths to glide: (V, i) CH; ChTr; CTC; E1L; LiTB; MoShBr; OBSC; OxBoLi; TrGrPo; WiR; WSC 129 If we shadows have offended,...

...Nod into a sea of dew. As Roger Warren says, The waking was not odd as I watched it. As Puck said, "Now it is the time of night / That the graves, all...forth his sprite / In the churchway paths to glide" (V. 1.374-77), the others rose from their dim-semicircle and joined the dance, so that Duke and Amazon,...

...mortal newlyweds, he chases away the screech owl of mortality: "The screech owl, screeching loud / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" (MND 5.1.362-64). This reminds Harold F. Brooks of the similar owl in "The Phoenix and the Turtle":...

...All with weary task foredone. Now the wasted brands do glow Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of...the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, n° Every one lets forth his sprite In the churchway paths to glide. And we fairies, that do run By...

...because we are seeing ghosts: Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of...forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide. (Vi. 361-8) There is no question, then, of putting the Dream audience, like that of 'Pyramus and Thisbe,...

...All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked...deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With livery one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By...

...lion roars"; "the heavy ploughman snores, / All with weary task fordone"; "the screech-owl . . . / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" (357, 359~6o, 362-64). Puck's invocation of night alludes to the heritage of the Fall and the burden...